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through a darkened storage room, out onto an unused cracked concrete patio and pointing to the neighbor's storage shed declared, “How much would it cost to make that go away?" I wanted to respond “Put a $5 lock on that basement door and don’t come out here.”
The point is to realistically assess how much you are willing to spend in money and time to block a view? How often do you actually see the view? Could something as easy as rearranging the seating on the deck or placing the outdoor entertaining on another side of the house solve the problem?
Perhaps a section or two of lattice fencing, anchored in flower boxes would be enough to give privacy to a seating area without having to plant looming evergreen trees that would eventually turn the patio into a needle-strewn black hole.
The trick is often to try to move the viewer rather than move the view.
If after thoroughly investigating ways to mitigate the view are exhausted, blocking the view with plantings is the next step.
The single biggest mistake people make is placing the screening plants at the very edge of their property, as far from them and as close to the offending view as possible. This common error only acts to draw attention to the bad view, instead of screening it.
The eye is drawn across t||p open, uncluttered expanse of lawn to the neat, soldierly row of trees standing right in front of
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